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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW ciiMMIcK, or COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR r0 HIMSELF AND EDMUND N. HATOHER, or SAME PLACE.

AXLE-SKElN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,289, dated July 31, 1883.

Application filed March 21,1893. (Model) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW G. EMMIOK, of Columbus, Franklin county, in the State of Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Hollow Plugs for Axle-Skeins, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to make the interior of the hollow plugs which are welded on the inside of aXle-skeins of the peculiar shape and for the reasons hereinafter specified.

Figure l of the drawings is a longitudinal section of an axle-skein and its hollow plug, the latter being constructed internallyaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the axle-skein; and Fig. 3 is a view of the male welding die, of aform adapted to shape the interior of my plug during the welding operation. l

B represents the axle-skein, andA my improved hollow plug. The latter has the cav I ity b, the smaller end hole, 0, and the inward flare, d.

The male die D, in producing the weld to the axle-skein, also makes thecavity with its working-face, b, the hole a, with its end 0, and the flare d, with its sloping shoulderd. By making the end hole, 0, small compared to the cavity 12, I am enabled to run alag-screw from the point of the skein to the axle, so as to eX- clude all air and moisture.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new is' The hollow plug of an axle-skein, made with the cavity b and an end hole, 0, made smaller than said cavity to receive a lag-screw, for the purpose specified.

ANDREW C. EMMIOK.

Vitnesses:

FRED F. OUR'rIs, J osnrn F. DAVIDSON. 

